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U.N. envoy discusses tsunami recovery, April 18

Posted April 12, 2006; 06:17 p.m.

by Ruth Stevens

Eric Schwartz, the United Nations' deputy special envoy for tsunami
recovery, will address reconstruction efforts following the 2004 Indian
Ocean disaster in a lecture set for 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 18, in 1 Robertson Hall.

Schwartz was appointed in August 2005 as deputy to former President
Clinton, who serves as U.N. special envoy for tsunami recovery. He
served on Clinton's National Security Council as senior director of
multilateral and humanitarian affairs.

Schwartz has been a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
and the United States Institute of Peace, worked for the U.N. High
Commission for Human Rights office and served in various capacities
with other international and nongovernmental organizations. He also has
been a lecturer at the Wilson School, where he earned an MPA in 1985.